Chapter 367: Golden State Defense
After the vanguard of the Japanese Second Army arrived at Piziwo, all parties in the Qing Dynasty were really frightened, and they understood the real intentions of the Japanese army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Shengjing's general Yulu completely gave up his attention to the front line in southern Liaoning and concentrated on the defense of Xiuyan, Phoenix, and Kuandian.
He hurriedly ordered the Minister of Military Training in the Northeast to settle down, make every effort to recruit a large number of troops in Hei, Ji, and Liao provinces, and asked the imperial court for ordnance to be shipped to Liaoyang.
For Yulu, if he loses Jinzhou, the emperor can't find a little trouble for him, but if he loses Liaoyang and Fengtian, then he Yulu will even lose his head.
Which is more important, Yulu has a share of Ma Qing'er.
When Li Hongzhang learned that the Japanese army occupied Piziwo, his face had already changed color, and he hurriedly ordered the 4th battalion of Zheng Caisheng of the Sheng Army stationed in the deputy battalion of the Renzi Army, and the 800 new army of the 4th phase of the Korean Army, to immediately sail to Port Arthur.
And repeatedly ordered Zhao Huaiye of Dalian Bay to aid the Korean army to guerrilla Mao Chao, not to go out of the bay to provoke, and immediately after the arrival of the Renzi army of the Korean aid army, he called immediately.
As for the telegram sent by Song Qing from Phoenix City asking for troops, Li Hongzhang threw it directly into the wastebasket with a disgusted face.
Regarding the defense area of Liaodong Shengjing General Yulu, he will definitely not send another soldier to Beiyang!
For so many years, the three eastern provinces have been squeezing Beiyang, and this time the war has drained tens of thousands of elites from his brigade and military port, and has almost drained his elite soldiers in Lutai, Xiaozhan and Tanggu.
Otherwise, this time Guangxu and Weng Tonggong them, where did they have such a big confidence to dare to directly try to rob him of Beiyang?
There is also Xu Bangdao's 'backbone', he really hasn't seen the wrong person over the years, this time he gave him 3,000 soldiers, horses, guns and artillery to garrison Dalian, but he was good, but he went to Jinzhou to hook up with Lian Shun.
Jinzhou is Yulu's defense area, are you Xu Bangdao blind, or do you have no strings in your brain?
In short, the current Li Hongzhang is angry and anxious, and he is full of bitter tears when he says it.
On October 31, after an overnight interrogation, Lian Shun, the deputy commander of Jinzhou, beheaded the Oriental spies Yamazaki, Zhongqi, and Fujisaki at the west gate of Jinzhou after obtaining the approval of the Shengjing general Yulu, and hung his head in the Dongcheng Tower.
At the same time, Yulu said in the telegram that "since the Japanese have occupied Piziwo, which is very close to the border of Jinzhou, the existing forces of Zun can be combined with the two armies of Zhao (Huaiye) and Xu (Bangdao) to defend with all their might."
I saw Lian Shun jumping up and scolding Yulu's old lady.
You TM said it lightly, there is a kind of you going to talk to Zhao Huaiye?
Immediately, in desperation, Lian Shun had to order 10 cannons to be erected on the city wall, and a large number of dry mines were planted outside the north gate to talk about repelling the enemy.
On November 1, Lian Shun, who was begging for troops everywhere but did not succeed, suddenly learned that the telegraph line to Fengtian had been cut off by the Japanese army, so he hurriedly wrote an urgent letter asking for troops and sent his staff Wang Jun to Fengtian as soon as possible.
At noon that day, Lian Shun and Xu Bangdao came to Dalian Bay again to ask for troops.
Because two days ago, he and Xu Bangdao, Lian Shun jointly called, and was scolded by Li Zhongtang for calling back Zhao Huaiye, whose nose is not a nose and his face is not a face, immediately said impatiently, as long as there can be a telegram from Zhongtang, he will not say a word, otherwise there will be no soldier.
forced Lian Shun to kneel down in front of Zhao Huaiye on the spot, so that Zhao Huaiye couldn't get off the stage, so he had to walk into the inner room with his sleeves brushed up.
Xu Bangdao didn't care about his face, and chased after him directly, repeatedly persuading the truth that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold.
Zhao Huaiye thought about it again and again, and felt that what he did was really not authentic.
finally agreed to secretly transfer Zhou Dingchen, the battalion officer who had been running in front of him for the past two days, to lead a battalion of infantry to help in the battle.
Then Lian Shun and Xu Bangdao went to the Monk Island Fort to ask Shen Zhaoao and Mao Chao for troops.
was rejected by Shen Zhaoao on the grounds that the regiment commander was not there and had no right to move troops.
"Commander Lian, you only need to put one hundred and twenty hearts, our aid army loves to fight; When the regiment commander comes with his troops, it's not a problem. ”
Mao Chao smoked Zhao Xiaopang's filial piety Pinhai cigarettes, and his words were bold and atmospheric, but even Shun and Xu Bangdao were full of bitterness.
The eyebrows are burning here, God knows where He Changying and Jiang Zikang are marching now, and when they come, the daylilies will be cold early!
Lian Shun and Xu Bangdao, who returned to Jinzhou suddenly, knew that there were no soldiers to ask for, so with a kind of anger to die, they began to form the Jinzhou defense line.
The defense will be centered on Jinzhou City, and it will be fortified on the left and right wings.
The left wing defense line is Fuzhou Avenue in front of Yong'an Gate in Jinzhou North City, and the right wing defense line is Jinzhou Avenue in front of Jinzhou Dongcheng Chunhe Gate.
Between Fuzhou Avenue and Jinzhou Avenue, there is the inaccessible North Black Mountain in the high mountains and dense forests.
The Jinzhou Avenue is built between the north and south of the Great Black Mountain, winding towards Piziwo.
The left flank was defended by the camp of Zhou Dingchen of the Huaizi Army and the cavalry battalion of Rong'an.
Jinzhou Avenue, which is directly connected to Piziwo, is heavily fortified by the Gong Guard.
The artillery camp position of the Gongwei Army was established in the southeast of Jinzhou City, backed by the east hill of Xiaotuozi Bay in Dalian Bay.
Lianshun's 500 soldiers guarded Jinzhou City, and used 10 red-coated cannons from the Qianlong period at the head of the city to provide fire support.
On November 2, the Japanese Second Army received a clear telegram from the Hiroshima base camp: If you want to contain Zhili Province, you must first occupy the Jinzhou Peninsula, and if you want to occupy the Port of Arthur, you must first take Panzhou City.
On the afternoon of the 2nd, the 1st Brigade of the 15th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, the 1st Brigade of the Engineer Division of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 15th Infantry Brigade of the Tamura Yoshiichi Division, and the 1st Cavalry Squadron of the Captain Masajiro Kono began to set off from Piziwo and march west to Jinshu.
Along the way, while exploring the enemy's situation, they captured laborers and forcibly drove them to repair the post road.
After getting the news in Jinmen, Li Hongzhang, who was in a hurry, ordered Zhao Huaiye to send a cavalry sentry to the east to find reinforcements, and asked Sheng Huaixuan to call Liu Hanfang of Denglai Qingdao and Li Bingheng, the governor of Ludong, to ask for troops to be transported to Dalian Port.
And on this day, Li Hongzhang sent two telegrams to Gong Zhaoyu in a row, asking him to immediately build the Nanguanling Fort at the throat of Lushun by land and deploy heavy troops to defend it.
However, at this time, Gong Zhaoxi, who got that the Japanese army really wanted to fight Jinzhou, was already scared.
At this critical juncture, Gong Zhaoxi, who was in charge of the Lushun Defense Zone, did not convene the generals to discuss the military, but hurriedly sent his subordinates to clean up the gold and silver collected over the years, as well as a room of little wives, to contact the merchant ships going to Ludong and prepare to run away.
On November 3, the 1st Engineer Brigade of Tamura Yoshiichi Shozo came to the east bank of the Dasha River and began to build a bridge.
On the same day, the main force of the First Division of the Second Army of the Japanese Army pulled out the camp from Piziwo and rushed to Jinzhou City.
The captain of the 1st Tokyo Cavalry Brigade, Akiyama Yoshiya Shaosa, led a cavalry squadron and an infantry squadron to Pulandian, the choke point of Fuzhou Avenue, from the fork in the road to give an early warning, in order to prevent the Qing army from coming to help from Fuzhou.
In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Jun and his party disguised as foot merchants were caught by the Japanese patrol cavalry at the crossing of the Dasha River, and the distress letter on his body was immediately searched.
Wang Junyi was not afraid, scolded the Japanese army more than once, and died by touching his head against the stone wall.
And the Japanese troops heading to Jinzhou, after the initial excitement and complacency, gradually began to become violent because of the desperate resistance of the righteous people of the Qing Dynasty along the way.
On November 1, in Piziwo, the blacksmith and the Kenmin surnamed Zhou in Shatun attacked the Japanese sentry with wooden sticks and seriously injured them; And when the blacksmith was caught and put on trial, he did not move, cursed incessantly, and died.
That night, the peasant Xu San also took advantage of the night to rush into the Japanese camp and stabbed to death the Japanese interpreter Fujishiro Kuhiko with a spear, and when he was shot dead by the Japanese army, Lang Ran laughed.
On November 3, Saito Tokumei's department entered the area of Liangjiadian and Chenjiadian, and Chen Baocai, a farmer from Qujia Village, led 44 peasants to ambush in Luofenggou on Phoenix Mountain, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to attack and kill many Japanese soldiers.
Saito Tokuaki immediately transferred troops to besiege it with a large army, and Chen Baocai and others all died heroically.